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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 3514656, member: 9403"] Having followed ESPN/Hoopgurlz recruiting rankings for about a decade now, I think they, like all the recruiting services, tend to get more right than wrong, and have relatively few complete swings-and-misses that can't be attributed to injury or "effort" in college, broadly speaking. In particular, I think they're really good at ferreting out top talent. I've certainly noticed that there is a very significant correlation between whether Stanford has one or more "top ten" ESPN/Hoopgurlz recruits and whether we are in contention for national championships. We had a stretch of top ten players that began with Candice Wiggins and continued with Jayne Appel, Kayla Pedersen, Jeanette Pohlen, Nneka Ogwumike, and ended with Chiney Ogwumike. During the stretch from Wiggins' senior year to Chiney's senior year we went to the final four in 5 out of 6 years. After Chiney graduated, we lacked a single top ten recruit until Kiana Williams, and we went to the final four once in the past 5 (completed) seasons - the one time was the senior year of Erica McCall, ranked 11th as a recruit by ESPN/hoopgurlz and our highest ranked recruit between Chiney and Williams. And sure, there may be some players ranked 40th (like Ruthy Hebard) who go on to be top ten college players, and vice versa (think Mercedes Russell). But all in all, I think the recruiting rankings are a solid approximation. And regardless, given how little money there is in non-subscription recruiting rankings, I can assure you no one does this for "clickbait." [/QUOTE]

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